Trying to trace my Great Grandad

Morning

If you have a look on Roots Ireland (it's a subscription site - www.rootsireland.ie) there are 6 baptism/births for a Peter Walsh in Co. Galway, one of these is a civil birth record (civil births started after 1864) and it lists a Peter born to a father John Walsh and a mother Biddy Loughrey. It may not be your ancestor as the other 5 are all in around the same estimated birth year, but have a look at all of  them and see what you think. Luckily you ancestor was born after 1864 so you may be able to find siblings' civil birth records also on that site. The address for that particular birth cert is New Park, Gort. 

All of the above assumes that you have the correct info from the census 1911? How did you kow that the Peter mentioned on the 1911 was your Peter?

Peters Well is spelt Peterswell and it is about 3 miles from Gort. For the parish of Peterswell records start in 1854 for baptisms and 1856 for marriages. St. Thomas' National School have a nice website with a bit of parish history on it - http://peterswellschool.com/PETERSWELL.html

Let me know how you get on

Mrs Doyle

Thank you Mrs Doyle for all the info, I've come across the name Biddy on some searches I've done before so I need to look into that again.

The Peter Walsh on the 1911 censor is definitely the right Peter because the address matches where my Dad was born.

I'm not 100% that his fathers name is John because they told a few porkies on marriage certificate (because of his wife's age.)

G.Walsh

Just found the 1901 censors for Peter Walsh and it say place of birth killifin Ireland, this is defiantly the same Peter Walsh but with two different places of birth on the 1911 and 1901 censors- confusing 

Hi,

Would you mind looking at the Kilbeacanty messages and see if this message http://www.irelandxo.com/group/kilbeacanty-galway/messages/looking-colloins-around-peterswell

relates to people in Peterswell?

There are two threads on the same family here is the second one.

http://www.irelandxo.com/group/kilbeacanty-galway/messages/kilthomas

One will notice they are visiting Galway next week and are looking for any Collins,Sennetts or caseys.

You can contact me at 

ainereachingout@gmail.com

Best wishes 

Aine